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Another story that has been developing during the news blackout known as the Christmas Season surrounds the issue of Abortion. Like a great many Canadians I'm surprised that this is an issue. I was fairly certain Canada had resolved this one quite a few years ago. It seems however, that there is a "secret caucus" in Ottawa made up of parliamentarians who would like to make abortion illegal. The plan at the moment seems to be to pass laws defining the fetus as alive and a legal person. Even this will be brought in thru the back door. The idea is to make crimes against pregnant women carry harsher sentences than the same crime committed against a non pregnant person. This introduces, legally, the idea that the fetus must be something special. From there the rights of the fetus are expanded until abortion becomes illegal because it infringes upon those rights. And today Stephen Harper announced that he has no intention of reopening the debate on abortion.

Where to start. A secret caucus? So there's a bunch of parliamentarians who know that Canadians don't want this issue reopened and are mostly accepting of where the laws now stand. The caucus is secret because if it got out which people were pushing this agenda they would lose their seats in the next, possibly soon, election. Why else would they hide? Combine this with the method being employed to change what are considered basic rights for women in Canada and you have a group of people who believe that they know better than the voters how things should be. And they are willing to go behind the backs of voters to make it happen. This is not representation. This is not politicians pursuing the will of their constituents. This is somebody saying they know what is right for us even though we have said repeatedly we don't want it. This is someone willing to use secret and hidden means to change the law, to force Canadians to a place we don't want to be.

Stephen Harper says he has no intention of reopening the abortion debate. He also has no intention to tax income trusts, call early elections or, well, you get the point. Who believes anything this guy says anymore. And I'm sure he'd say that this isn't about abortion, it's about harsher sentences for crimes against pregnant women. This takes us down the same garden path.

It seems to me that if a person is against abortion, rather than trying to change the laws that the majority of Canadians support they should spend their energies supporting single mothers. If it was easy in our society to be a single mother, if there were numerous supports in place to help women, we'd see far fewer abortions. It's also something a great many Canadians would support. I know I would.

Original story here.